Valerio Pachera wrote:
> Consider this:
>
> import collections
> d = OrderedDict(a='hallo', b='world')
>
> I wish to get a single string like this:
>
> 'a "hallo" b "world"'
>
> Notice I wish the double quote to be part of the string.
> In other words I want to wrap the value of a and b.
>
> I was thinking to use such function I created:
>
> def mywrap(text, char='"'):
> return(char + text + char)
>
> I can't think anything better than
>
> s = ''
> for k, v in d.items():
> s += ' '.join( (k, mywrap(v)) ) + ' '
>
> or
>
> s = ''
> for k, v in d.items():
> s += k + ' ' + mywrap(v) + ' '
>
> What do you think?
> It's fine enough but I wonder if there's a better solution.
In Python 3.6 and above you can use f-strings:
>>> d = dict(a="hello", b="world")
>>> " ".join(f'{k} "{v}"' for k, v in d.items())
'a "hello" b "world"'
By the way, are you sure that the dictionary contains only strings without
spaces and '"'?
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